Fragments from 19th Century Trade Notices and Ads
A collage of vintage catalog claims and dealer notices. Mason & Hamlin organs advertised in varied styles at high prices. gold and silver medals offered as premiums. Gal lery promotions for cheap pictures. Zeigler Smut drug makers claim superiority. multiple agents listed for advertising and watch sales. blanket suaves and catalog offers appear across scattered lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason & Hamlin
Boston
Mason Brothers
New York
Jpxson
Excelsior Skyliguy Gallert
Liberty Whith
Ziegler & Smut
North Third Street
Philad’a
The Bachelor’s Complaint a verse on bachelor life and change
The verse laments aging and lost friendships in bachelor days. It contrasts youthful longing with social pressures toward domestic life, praising freedom and natural love while mourning vanished warmth and companionship. The poem anchors on memory, longing, and the cost of growing up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meyer
Smile Often Bring Happiness to All Around
A moral urging to choose a cheerful, kind, and pleasant demeanor. It argues happiness arises from a smiling face and kind acts, while sour words and fretful nature spread unhappiness. Emphasizes daily joy from acts of kindness and a positive countenance guiding interactions.
Prosper in Business Principles From A Hundred Sayings
A fragmented compilation of advices on thrift, perseverance, and character. It urges decisive work, frugality, early rising, courteous treatment of others, and avoiding despair, with anecdotes about lotteries and misused luck to illustrate prudent conduct and self help.
Robber Outwitted by Irishman on California Road
An Irishman in Copperopolis evades a highwayman near San Andreas by dropping his carpet bag and sharing a lit pipe, exposing the robber’s attempt to seize gold. Pat then lifts his bag and walks on, noting the incident as the thief tries to press on with money still in view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat
Charrishman
Comical Church Scene and Household Tips in Newark Courier
A Sabbath tale from a Broad Street church where warm air lulls congregants including a prominent business man who dozes, causing a humorous near-miss with his wife’s bonnet sprig. The piece shifts to misc notes on cleanliness, potting potatoes, bathing, ear care, and farm talk, ending with rustic quips about milking cows and a child’s remark about heaven and a grocer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N- J
Broad Street
Doal
Jackerson
Varagated Villain and War Relic In Oxford Memoir Fragment
A fragment from a historical account recounts Dr Craven’s odd obsession with collecting natural curiosities and a grotesque tale of tattooed branding on a deserter’s body as moral commentary. It shifts to a Boston Journal reference about a Gettysburg color guard flag, then Governor Morton’s Indianapolis speech urging Indians to reject a decayed party in favor of liberty and country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Craven
Craven
Smithsonia Museum
Boston Journal
Kennebec
Sixteenth Maine
Hatcher's Run
Falee
Democratic Party
A Queer Country and a Jury of Stupidity Unfold in Ohio
A fragmented historical excerpt reports a jury in Hamilton County Ohio reversing a manslaughter verdict to bigamy in a pocket-picking case. It details a decayed murder scene, including a woman found bound and sewn in a bagsack, and cites a coroner's verdict of death by own action by drowning. The text laments trust in human resolve and warns against dependence on anything but God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Eloiee Hunt
Heiner’s Run
Clinton County
Allebhanies
Herth
Sumer
Bowers
Hamilton County
Ohio
Wen
God
Mobbing of a Kentucky Methodist minister in Scott county
A Cincinnati Gazette account describes the mobbing of missionary Rev. Gardiner in Georgetown Kentucky. Rebels forced him from his house, damaged property, and accused him of disloyalty while a black boy was used to deliver a leave town order. The assault included threats of tar and feathers and physical coercion. The report follows preface about church choices and civil strife in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Scott County
Cincinnati
Methodist Episcopal Church
Sharer
R. G. Gardiner
Gardiner
Georgetown
Duvall
Court of Appeals
Southern Methodist Church
Dixie
Colored Church
Worthy
AL. W
Robél Eoldicy
Ais
Garaner
Also Mentioned on This Page
Professional Unis
U.S
Washington
R. G. McCreary
Gettysburg
D. Woonaughy
Feice
Buehler’s
Drug & Book Store
Chambersburg Street
Weoneal
Wills
Balti
More and High Streets
Presbyterian Church
J. Lawrence Hill
EGS
Bia
Lutheran Church
Chambersburg St
P.ernuth
D.D
Muhlenberg
M- Jacobs
Ome
Stoever
Baugher
Uber
Joseph P. Glarkson
Arrouner
P. O. Box
Chicago
R G_ Harper
the Sentinel
M. &. Stocrer
Fakoestock Brothers
J. A. Buebier
Culps& Earnshaw
Samuel
Eurbal
Quettysburg
Baltimore
Stevenson & B03
Howard Street
Franklin
Railroad
North Washington Streets
Gattysburg
CUP & Dakrnshaw
Eresh
Scott & Sons
A. Scott & Sons
Ahnestock Brothers
BEY Cheay Goons
Famestocks
Bevan's
Gettysburgh
M. Petpengili & CO
Park Row
State St
A. Scott & Son
Mies
Ani
Hemen
Treaven
Dallow
Angel
Johnny G
Gould
Aroerea
Johny
Johnny
Ang Lanos
Jabor
Jet Uy
Ava
Otperio
Market
Tenth Streets
Philadelphia
Freas
The
Cape
Toertland Star
Margaret Mowitt
Frederika Bremer
Sweden
Gen. Grant
Meeself
Dennis Conelly
Awersky
United States
Bobby Bee
St George’s Church
Michael
Gabriel
Euecessiop
Thom
Morton
Indianapolis
David Dsid
Forihun
Waa
Israel
Judea
Bethlehem
War
Marm
Becky
Warrans
Wast
Charles Dickens
Douglac Jerrold
Oser
Jerrold
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